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r. Frank Crane's 



OPINION OF 



ASTROLOGY 



With notes, comments and other interesting matter 

By the publisher 

FRANK THEODORE ALLEN, Director, 

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ASTROLOGICAL RESEARCH SOC1E' \ 

WASHINGTON. D. C 

1918 







"This prospect vast - what is it ? 
Judged aright 'tis Nature's system of divinity, 
"lis Elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand: 
Scripture authentic! Uncorrupt by man!" 



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Copyright, 1918, By Frank The adore Allen. 




PRE 



Unless we may except the chapter entitled "ASTRO-MET] 

which commences on page 68, the author, in this broc 

serious attempt to prove ,the truth of astrology, nor to de 

strate the effectiveness of the planetary influences upon human life ar 

affairs of men and nations. His underlying purpose, on this occasion, 

publicly demonstrate, exhibit, dissect and expose the contemptiblj 

tonest, cowardly and utterly unscientific spirit manifested by those 

den astrology and who ridicule the claim that it deserves to tak< 

■ ie greatest of all the arts and sciences. 

he author does not attempt to justify, nor even apologize for 
lauseating messes that are so generally served under the guise of scie 
astrology Nor does he defend the professional practice of giving asti' 
ical "Re lings," advice, etc. The subject is far too vast and all-inclusi 
warrant m attempt to comprehensively consider any of its num< 
featun i a booklet of this kind. 

)f the chief motives that inspired the writing and publishii 
:h of the matter included in this brochure is an earnest desire to * 
respectful attention of men and women of learning, culture 
influence and convince them that the defamers of astrology have not a 
to stand upon ; that they have neither a moral nor a scientific right to 
less to express, an opinion concerning the validity of the clain 
astrology! Not one of them has ever seriously and honestly given the 
ject such consideration and fair investigation as would warrant the: 
pinion of even a much less profound and abstruse theme ! 
often the writer has blushed and felt impelled to apologizi 
f tVqueer types, strange capers and fantastic practices of many of t 
xlv espouse the cause of astrology. It is a sad and shameful 
| noblest of all the sciences has been so generally and wl 
dei> *v nd rejected by the "Cultured," the "Respectables" and the "£ 

^ lat only those who were in some way rendered immune or i * 
ferent ft the jeers, sneers, ridicule and ignomy meted out to its advoc 
lave ei able to persist in its investigation, advocacy and practice, 
mental k ks coincident with such immunity have, of course, been gr< 
emphasize I by the intellectual and often social isolation, the frequent p< 
cutions riiiH other untoward conditions resulting from the adoption 
championsKp of an unpopular and despised art and calling. 

For maiy years the writer has cherished the hope and expectation 

he would live to see and participate in at least the beginnings of a s 

ie, sensibl\ and soundly scientific system of astrological research 

exper j entatftn. None but the most arrant bigots will dispute the f ol 

dedaratioi 

if it\be true that the planets and the 
jigns of the zodiac do exert a definite and 
readily ascertainable influence upon the 
life, character and destiny of men and 
ons, then the investigation and under- 
st/« -jding of the modes, means and methods of 
sui i influence constitutes the most impor- 
tant subject that the human mind is capable 

OMPREH^NDING. * . , r - f/1on 



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DR. FRANK CRANE'S OPINION OF ASTROLOGY. 
Text by Frank Theodore Allen. 



But now, so callous grown, so changed since youth 
IVe learned to think and sternly speak the truth: 
Learned to deride the critics starch decree, 
And break him on the wheel he meant for me! 
To spurn the rod a scribbler bids me kiss, 
Nor care if courts and crowds applaud or hiss ! 



r many years I have been, and still am, 
'dent admirer of the writings of Dr. 
k Crane. Almost always I find myself 
arty accord with the opinions he ex- 
?s, the theories he propounds, and the 
ations or projects he proposes. I had 
to idealize this man and hold him in 
snce as one who was eminently 
y of my sincerest love and respect, 
the winter of 1912-13 my attention 
railed to one of Dr. Crane's news- 
articles in which he had expressed 
If quite vigorously in condemnation 
rology. I addressed him courteously 
sked for his birth-date in order that 
ht prepare for him a brief sketch of 
the horoscope of his birth would re- 
loping by that means to interest him 
id convince him of the wondrous 
inherent to the science of astrology, 
nt a brief tho very courteous note 
/ing with my request, but saying that 
1 no knowledge of the time at which 
rth occurred. I did the best I could 
such incomplete data, explaining to 
at it stood to reason that if there was 
uth in the theory of planetary influ- 
lpon human life and character that 
nust be some scientific way by which 
riminate between and distinguish the 
children that are born every day. 
t letter I said: ""Every minute of 
"nd every degree of latitude and of 
de involves differences in the relative 
at which the planetary rays con- 
, hence the correct time of birth and 
vledge of the latitude and longitude 
birth place was necessary to insure 
:y in forming a correct estimate of 



the influences of the planets in any life/ 
The following is another paragraph fr< 
the same letter to Dr. Crane: 

"My reason for going to this trouble 
that recently in one of your writings 3 
asserted that astrology was ' one of 1 
useless things that the advancing inte 
gence of humanity had relegated to the ju 
heap/ Now my respect for you and 
exceptional ability evidenced in your w\ 
ings is such that upon reading that arh 
from your pen I felt as grieved as thoi 
a favorite child had suddenly given t 
dence of a most distressing defect in ch 
acter. One of my idols had been revea'< ' * 
as having a nasty flaw. A man whose s 
ings I have been quoting and lauding to 
skies has shown himself tainted with an 
pardonable prejudice against and ignora 
of one of the most comprehensive and j : 
pendously potent repositories of knowle 
— of Self-Knowledge — that Creative In 
ligence has made available to humanity. 
"Your intellectual strength and influe 
is measured by < the completeness of y 
knowledge and information, and is lim\ 
by the gaps of ignorance and the prejud 
which you fail to eliminate. If there is 
truth in astrology it is by far the most 
portant truth that men can approach, com- 
prehend and utilise. If there be a stri ' 
scientific and mathematical KEY to 
code of laws which predetermine hui 
character and influence the general tr ri 
and tendencies of human life, then it 
hooves a man who exerts so great an 
fluence as you certainly do upon the m\ 
of thinking people to acquaint himself 
this truth and avoid the disagreeable 



nbility of writing himself down as 
/ idiced as well as adding to the preju- 

- of his fellows." 

. Crane sent a brief tho very courteous 
ki owledgment of the effort I had made to 

est him in the science of astrology. Be- 
■ follows a copy of his note: 

CRANE 

5 West Fifty-fifth Street, New York. 
March 13/13. 

ik Theodore Allen, Room 210, 
Humphrys Building, 
Atlantic City, N. J. 
! y dear Mr. Allen : — / thank you for 
>: r very interesting horoscope, which I 
? read with careful attention. I am glad 
called my attention to this department 
\nowledge. 

Yours very truly, 

FRANK CRANE. 

accepted Dr. Crane's polite note at its 
; value, believing him to be sincere and 
ted glad that I had called his attention 
i department of knowledge to which he 

hitherto been a stranger. 'But as the 
rs that have since intervened passed by 
vas frequently wounded by learning of 
sh attacks made by Dr. Crane upon 

subject that I knew him to be so 
mefully ignorant of and prejudiced 
inst. These, and more especially certain 
;nt developments, have proven that Dr. 
ne's courteous treatment of me in 1913 

nothing but a wilfully assumed mask 
ind which he concealed his contempt- 
s estimate of me and of the theme I 

taken such great pains to try and in- 
st him in. 

: grieved me to realize that a man of 
h charming talent and whose abilities 
;ed him in the foremost rank of literary 
iuses should be so terribly tainted with 

cankerous poisons of prejudice. It 
i hurt and stung me to the quick to 
ize that the same papers that published 
screeds against astrology by Dr. Crane 

others of his ilk welcomed and gave 

it prominence to the grotesquely irra- 

al and wildly improbable predictions 

such megalomaniacs as, for instance, one 

ofessor Gustave Meyers, of Hoboken, 

J.," who brazenly advertised himself as 

I e Nation's Counsellor," and whose 

d and fantastic pronounciamientoes had 

. urn declared the certain destruction of 

I ly every city on the map. By such 

ns have the newspapers assisted in the 

ipiracy to nurture the prejudice against 

Dlogy, causing it and its sincere votaries 

be despised, scorned, denounced and 



ridiculed. And incidentally giving 
free advertising to certain unscrup 
mountebanks who never hesitate to I 
fullest advantage of the credulity oi 
poor dupes who apply to them for hi 
views and readings. 

On January 10th, 1918, I received a 
munication from a gentleman who 
plained that he had recently been 
vinced that there must be much trut' 
astrology and that he was in ques 1 
guidance in the selection of suitable t 
to assist his investigation of the sul 
Incidentally this gentleman stated the 
had written to Dr. Frank Crane bee 
of the sincere respect in which he held 
after having for years been reading Cr 
syndicated articles in the newspa 
This seeker after light and truth quite 
urally assumed that a man of Dr. Cr 
evident breadth of thought and wond 
fund of information on all sorts of sub 
would surely be well informed concei 
and at least charitably disposed tow 
astrology. 

Dr. Crane's response to the query oi 
new correspondent was nothing shor 
an insulting denunciation of astrolog: 
shall presently reproduce in full the i 
which Dr. Crane sent this gentlema 
response to his inquiries. To say th 
was hurt, indignant and angry but m 
describes the feelings this incident arc 
in me. Here was I — -in the midst of i 
of the most severe struggles against 
menace of poverty and suffering keenh 
want of suitable facilities with which t 
my work — and for no other reason 
because of the popular prejudice ag ain 
astrology which is so wilfully and pei 
ently fostered by the likes of Dr. C: 
And here was this man who in sir 
quest of guidance had applied to this 
mous, popular and prosperous Dr. Cra 
only to be treated to a scornful dia 
against the subject he had venture* 
inquire about. I lost no time about 
dressing a letter to Dr. Crane. That 1 
and his answer and others that follow* 
will be reproduced in the order of 
development : 

Washington, D. C, January 10, 19 

Dr. Frank Crane, 

117 West 79th St., 
New York City. 

Mr. dear Dr. Crane: — / have before I M 
letter written by you a few weeks ag 
reply to an inquiry that was sent yo\ 
one zvho admires your writings. I . 
quote its message: 

" I have never considered astrolo 

seriously for the simple reason that 






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INDEX 



PAGE 

Ivisors, My 77 

roplane Fatalities Can Be Greatly 

Reduced 89 

riculture and Planetary Influence... 90 

i Exception Among Educators 28 

An Unsuccessful Victor 90 

A.-itrological Iconoclast, Resumption of 86 
- trology Untarnished Amid the Decay 

>f Knowledge 60 

tro-Metro Money-Mad Acrobat 81 

tro-Meteorology 68 

jotry in Our Universities 25 

' ss, George D., Director of Philadel- 
>h:a Branch of U. S. Weather 

bureau 72 

Ic, Edward W 79 

rt Before the Horse 90 

arJatans, Occultists, Fortune-Tellers, 48 
ickens Doves, Geese, Mice, Sheep 

its 21 

sre's the 73 

53 

verend Russell 14 

nons to 91 

rank, Opinion of Astrology 5 
shing Company, How and 
ey Lost an Exceptional 

y 79 

:ope Flap-doodle 60 

45 

jmas, Modern Scientific Exploded.. 55 

Frank Crane's Opinion of Astrology 5 

61 

olary Fly-Swatter 67 

nong Educators 28 

in Officially Recognized 

ical Theories 70 

37 

: Dodging 88 

a Scientific and a Moral 

55 

-.i c. cond Effects 56 

-Swattei, An Epistolary 67 

ecast Fulfilled (Lloyd George) 77 

time-Tellers, Occultists, Charlatans 43 

Jik Confession by a Frank Frank.. 18 

i Direct from Nature's Fun Factory 49 
ggs, Edward Howard, A. M., L. 

[. D 25 

e's the Clincher 73 

*oism, Poem 44 

lodges, Lehigh Mitchell Hodges, 

etters to 69 

oscope Flap-doodle 60 

«r a Hiatus Punctures a Hole 70 

■ nan Wasps, Bumble Bees, Yellow 

ickets and Mosquitoes 83 

I p*t Had to Do It 88 

This the Last Straw ? 89 

ings of a Scientific Acrobat 15 

ian, David Starr 25 

fman, Herbert 23 



PACK 

Kaiser William and Astrologer Allen 
Under Same Astrological Classifica- 
tion 80 

Kepler's Critics 30 

Kipling's Message to Young Men 52 

Kirk, Eleanor 28 

Last Straw 89 

Leland Stanford, Jr., University 25 

Le Row, Caroline B 28 

Lloyd George Government Triumphs.. 77 

Love of Money, Root of All Evil 50 

"Love Your Enemies" 52 

Low, The Hon. Seth 26 

Mad as a Hatter 57 

Markham, Edward 23 

Missing Link Which Is Ignored by 

the Official Weather Forecasters 70 

My Many Mysterious Matrimonial 

Mutations 94 

Nautilus, The 28 

New Era, The 91 

New Thought Endorsements 28 

Nineteen Eighteen a Climacteric Year. . 33 

New York Sun a Misnomer 30 

New York Sun but a Dark Satellite. ... 15 

Nutty Raiser and Cracker of Nuts.... 89 
Only a Man — a Human Being — That's 

All 50 

Pampered Pets or Fighting Dogs 80 

Philadelphia's Temple College a Monu- 
ment to Its Founder's Vanity and 

Ambition 14 

Planetary Influence Explained 54 

Prayer, My 52 

Prevision 47 

Professional Beggar 66 

Prussian Offensive, Forecast of 59 

Schwab, Charles M 77 

Sears, Roebuck & Company 63 

Selfishness the Greatest Enemy of Man 32 

Service, The Keynote of the New Era 76 

Serviss, Garret P 15 

Skunks 19 

Spiritual Disasters 41 

Tantalizing Tests, Troubles and Tribu- 
lations, A Week Of 61 

Thanks— To Contributors , 84 

Towne, Elizabeth 28 

Two Types of Persons 48 i 

Unsuccessful Victor, An 90 I 

Victor, An Unsuccessful 90 " 

War Forecasts by Various Astrologers 15 
Weather Bureau Statistics Demonstrate 

Claims of Astro-Meteorology 73 

Weather Forecasting by Astro-Meteor- 
ology «6 

Why and How of This Human Docu- 
ment 31 

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 24 

Woodrow Wilson's Masterpiece 89 

Woodrow Wilson's Personality in the 

Zodiac 94 



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The author has demonstrated the above claim t Q Q00 171 fifiQ ^ 
isolated individuals and is now ready to make demoi_y_ _„ ^_L _____ __r_T 

strict test conditions as must convince and satisfy all fair-minded ar 
rational people. In the twenty years he has devoted to astrology he h; 
not once met nor learned of one of its critics who had personally investigate 
or studied the subject. Nor has he ever learned of a single instance 
which one who had once studied and mastered the rudiments of scientif 
astrology who afterwards denied the effectiveness of the influence of tl 
planets and the Zodiac upon human life. 

Either Astrology is the ONE BIG and SURPASSING TRUTH O 
ALL TRUTH, or it is NOTHING! 

FRANK THEODORE ALLEN. 
CRUDITIES, BLUNDERS, ERRORS, ETC. 

Readers are asked to kindly make note of such errors in spellin 
phrasing, punctuating, etc., as they find in this booklet and send a mem 
randum of same to the author, so that he may make proper correctio 
before printing a second edition — which he feels confident will b quire 

The writing of and all the work incident to the preparat 
publication has been performed under the most turbulent, disti 
painfully trying conditions imaginable. The author begs to 
readers that with good health, fair facilities, congenial environ 
freedom from vexatious interferences, he is capable of turr. 
much more creditable job than he is obliged to let go on this occasion. 
desires also to express his sincere appreciation of the exceptic 
and splendid helpfulness of the printers. He has never had 
proofs than those for this booklet. 

ADDENDUM: Finding two additional pages at my disp< 
decided to use them and include the first few paragraphs of tl 
my matrimonial experiences. This should prove especially i 
because it includes an analysis or description of the sign which 9 
the personality of President Wilson. But back of and underlyin 
sonality Woodrow Wilson has the Sun — representing the he 
center and foundation of his character; and the Moon, who signifies 1 
instinctive or natural mental atmosphere; and Mercury, who denotes t 
intellect and reasoner, or higher mind — all three in the cardinal sig 
Capricorn. Capricorn is, pre-eminently, the sign of order, system, orgai 
zation, method, leadership, perseverence, tact, resourcefulness and endi 
ance. The President's horoscope is a truly wonderful study. He is inde 
chosen of the Gods — a "Man of Destiny !" 

COPYRIGHTED, 1918. 

The contents of this booklet are under the protection afforded authc 
by virtue of the copyright laws of the United States of America, the stip 
lated requirements having been conformed with and the required i 
duly paid. 

The author has certain ingrained "Conscientious scruples" respecti 
the use of the copyright privilege. On some future occasion he expects 
define his objections and also reveal his reason for having — apparently — 
this occasion, compromised with his conscience. 




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